Featured Newsletter 13 January 2026 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, January 2026 Happy new year! TBR kicks off the first week of January with a super-sized issue featuring China, Coupang, insurrection trials and more.
Featured Culture 9 January 2026 Actor Jo Jin-ung’s Retirement Gets Political Outspoken liberal actor was accused of juvenile crimes.
Featured Society 8 January 2026 Can Lee Jae-myung Stem the Tide of Migration to Seoul? Local Elections are less than six months away.
Featured Blue House 7 January 2026 Yoon Committed Insurrection: Survey The court of public opinion has decided.
Featured Business & Economy 5 January 2026 Weak Won Prompts Government Action Exchange rate may be as high as KRW 1,540 to USD 1.
Featured Blue House 2 January 2026 Roh Moo-hyun Still the Most Popular: Data Only three presidents had approval over 50%.
Featured Blue House 1 January 2026 The Insurrection, One Year Later An inflection point, but to which direction?
Featured Business & Economy 30 December 2025 Massive Data Breach at Coupang Nearly every Korean adult is affected.
Featured Culture 29 December 2025 Lee Sun-jae, 91, Oldest Active Actor and Former Politician Lee was a star in the highest rated TV show in South Korean history.
Featured Society 26 December 2025 Most Support Raising Retirement Age: Data Delayed mandatory retirement closes the gap until pensioners are eligible for the national pension.
Featured Conservatives 25 December 2025 Will the People Power Party Survive the Insurrection Investigation? Disbandment is a real possibility, but is the conservative party too big to fail?
Featured Business & Economy 24 December 2025 Government Pushes for More Domestic Investment Large corporations pledged record domestic investment.
Featured Blue House 22 December 2025 Presidential Office to Return to the Blue House South Korea’s long national nightmare is nearly over.
Featured Media 19 December 2025 Student Newspaper Strikes a Defiant Tone Middle school-aged editors with hard-hitting journalism.
Featured Conservatives 18 December 2025 O Se-hun Seeks Redemption with Sewoon Plaza Redevelopment Sewoon Plaza redevelopment may fuel the conservative mayor's re-election bid.
Featured Newsletter 16 December 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, December 2025 TBR looks ahead to a new era in 2026.
Featured Business & Economy 15 December 2025 Seoul Real Estate Reaches New Heights High-rises never cease to be popular.
Featured Blue House 12 December 2025 Reckoning with the Truth of the Itaewon Disaster Photo: Prime Minister Kim Min-seok (far left) attends the memorial for the Itaewon disaster with leaders of major political parties. Credit: Yonhap News. Three years since the crowd crushing event in Itaewon 이태원 that killed 159, the South Korean government is reckoning with the true cause of the disaster. On
Featured Newsletter 9 December 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, December 2025 The Seoul real estate market continued to plague the Democratic Party.
Featured Courts 9 December 2025 Skepticism Over Court Packing: Data Photo: Hall of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea. Credit: Supreme Court. By rushing to overturn Lee Jae-myung 이재명’s not-guilty verdict just days before the presidential election, the Supreme Court 대법원 blatantly inserted itself into electoral politics. (See previous coverage, “Total War of Institutions.”) But the National
Featured Business & Economy 8 December 2025 Jeonse Begins to Fade Credit: Public demand. Jeonse 전세, the unique South Korean rental system in which the renter makes a massive deposit of up to 70% of the home value, is starting to give way to the more conventional monthly rentals 월세. In September, 65% of all new rental agreements were monthly rentals,
Featured Newsletter 2 December 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, November 2025 One year has passed since Yoon Suk-yeol’s insurrection attempt.
Featured Culture 25 November 2025 Giants Fans Despair as Twins and Eagles Battle in the Korean Series Busan team's playoff funds are untouched for nearly a decade.
Featured North Korea 24 November 2025 Majority No Longer Wants Reunification: Data For the first time, the naysayers are the majority.
Featured Business & Economy 21 November 2025 South Korea Attracts Global AI Investments Global AI companies rush to open Seoul offices as KRW 20t new investment is incoming.
Featured United States 20 November 2025 ROK-US Alliance: Is This the Beginning of the End? Seoul is preparing for the future without the alliance with the United States.
Featured Newsletter 18 November 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, November 2025 The investigation into Yoon Suk-yeol’s insurrection continued, with the People Power Party’s existence at stake.
Featured Business & Economy 18 November 2025 Palantir Takes Seoul Fashion Scene by Storm The AI company leans in on investor fandom.
Featured Elections 17 November 2025 Early Look at Seoul Mayor Race: Polls Incumbent O Se-hun leads within the margin of error.
Featured Business & Economy 14 November 2025 Stringent New Restrictions on Real Estate Transactions The restriction covers the entire Seoul and surrounding regions.
Featured Foreign Policy 13 November 2025 Tempers Flare over Cambodian Criminal Rings What began as a triumphant foreign policy achievement quickly became more complicated.
Featured Newsletter 11 November 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, November 2025 Lee Jae-myung continued to push for the transfer of wartime OPCON, while Seoul redevelopment plans heated up.
Featured Society 11 November 2025 Seoul Leads in Average Wages: Data High wages were skewed toward the capital region.
Featured Society 10 November 2025 Tattoos Legalized After 33 Years Once associated with organized crime, tattoos quickly became a mainstream phenomenon.
Featured Business & Economy 7 November 2025 Samsung Electronics Leads a Record-Breaking KOSPI Run Longstanding market leader is recovering its position lost to SK Hynix.
Featured China 6 November 2025 Once Again, South Korea Looks Toward China Soured relationship from 2017 may be on the rebound.
Featured Newsletter 4 November 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, October 2025 South Korea navigated through the APEC summit hosting Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.
Featured Culture 4 November 2025 Jeon Yu-seong, 76, Godfather of Korean Comedy Pioneering comedy writer moved South Korea away from slapstick.
Featured Business & Economy 31 October 2025 KakaoTalk Withdraws Disastrous Update The change in the "everything app" sparked an immediate backlash.
Featured Foreign Policy 30 October 2025 Starter Kit: South Korea, Israel, and Palestine Although South Korea historically had a closer relationship with Israel, recent events in both the Middle East and within South Korea have caused Koreans to be more distanced.
Featured Newsletter 28 October 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, October 2025 South Korea prepared for diplomacy at the APEC summit - while keeping one eye on nuclear armament.
Featured Society 27 October 2025 Seoul Vacuums Up the Youth: Data Young people come to the city as the older people leave.
Featured Business & Economy 24 October 2025 O Se-hun’s Han River Bus Flops Yet another Seoul mayor's water project fails to make a splash.
Featured Foreign Policy 23 October 2025 Lee Jae-myung Eyes Middle-Power Diplomacy with APEC Summit What was almost a disaster now became a bridge for Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.
Featured Newsletter 21 October 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2025 South Korea drew one step closer to nuclear armament. Also: troubled times in Cambodia.
Featured Society 21 October 2025 Gyeonggi-do Province Passes Migrant Bill of Rights South Korea's first legal guarantee of the human rights of residents of non-Korean origin.
Featured Business & Economy 20 October 2025 Global Tourism Rushes In: Data Marked increase of tourism from Europe.
Featured Society 17 October 2025 Court Reverses a 61-Year-Old Case of Self-Defense Against Sexual Assault In 1961, Choi Mal-ja bit off her assailant's tongue in self-defense.
